Sony is working on the PlayStation 4, which it calls “Orbis,” and plans to release the device in time for the holiday season in 2013, according to a recent report. The console can reportedly play 3D games at 1080p resolution, as compared to the PS3′s 720p. It apparently won’t be backward-compatible with games for the PS3 and will reportedly seek to bar owners from playing used games. Some developers say they’ve already received development kits for the Orbis.

The GPU will be able to display games at an unprecedented 2160p! That’s crazy… so basically start saving up for an SHD Monitor or TV… read more here.

Maybe Sony has the answer…

Meet the Sony Vaio Z2.

• 13.1″ 1080p screen
• Second Batter Slice that doubles run-time capacity
• external dock option
  • add a dedicated GPU that can power the 13.1″ screen
  • optical drive (blue-ray)
  • addition connectivity

Want more statistics and the full scoop? Head on over here.

• The world’s first 28nm GPU. The revolutionary new GCN Architecture. Ready for DirectX® 11. PCI Express 3.0. The AMD Radeon™ HD 7970 is your personal checklist for ground-breaking technology.
• The next generation of AMD Eyefinity technology is here, featuring all-new support for stereo 3D, universal bezel compensation and brand new display configurations. Face it: the best just got better.

Looking for more specs and benchmark results go here.

AMD has been aggressively shipping DirectX 11 GPUs in almost every price category, while cards based on Nvidia’s new GTX 470 and GTX 480 DX11 parts are finally becoming available. Meanwhile, Windows 7’s sales ramp has been extraordinary—the fastest-selling Microsoft OS in history. Given that Windows 7 is what Vista should have been, it’s also arguable that DirectX 11 is what DX10 should have been.

When DirectX 10 games hit the streets, the new API gave users marginal improvements in image quality alongside huge performance decreases. The tiny gain in visual fidelity didn’t really make up for the performance hit. On the other hand, DirectX 11 brings users some very cool potential eye-candy improvements, but also promises better performance—even if you don’t have a DirectX 11 GPU.

My buddy just got an Nvida GTX 470 card, I cant wait to see Dirt 2 on it! Check out the full story here along with great visual comparisons of games with and without tessellation.

Intel Core i7-875K processor will have the same specifications as the model 870: it will operate at 2.93GHz, will feature four cores with Hyper-Threading technology, sport 8MB of L3 cache and will be made using 45nm process technology. The only difference between the two central processing units (CPUs) will be unlocked multiplier on the 875K chip, which will allow overclockers and enthusiasts to easily boost clock-speed of the product without necessity to overclock other parts of their systems.

If you head on over to Tom’s Hardware you will see that they have gotten this chip to and in excess of 4Ghz! That’s insane…. so you have a Quad Core 4Ghz processor…with air cooling none the less… Say hello to 80+ fps in games like Crysis.

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“From a gaming perspective, the most significant features Nvidia mentioned are that Fermi will indeed support DirectX 11, and that it will use GDDR5 memory. Those features answer two of AMD’s most obvious advantages with its new Radeon HD 5800-series cards, but Nvidia hasn’t provided information on availability, which remains AMD’s most important edge.”

“Intel, never one to shrink from competition, announced that it would enter, by 2010, the market for high-end graphics chips. The chip, code-named Larrabee, would give Nvidia and AMD something to think about. And that’s about all they could do since the chip–at least initially–was merely a paper tiger.”

The say it wont be a GPU as many people are thinking it will be, but it will be made up of many processor cores. It will look and act like a GPU, carrying out many functions of a conventional gamer graphics card. Larrabee will work with most games, because it doesn’t rely on a specific graphics API.

Interesting news, but well have to keep our eyes on this one.

Currently AMD-ATI / NVIDIA own 98% of the GPU Business.

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